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[the alarming man]

Resistors over 1M are not that common.

However, I always have a stock if you get short

dunno about that have about 150 in the back of my car...but as for crapling THEY are all the same...bring back tandy...but craplins is a by probuct of tandy...like phoenix rising from the ashes come maplins

[Vamps]

Got a feeling I'm going to pay for this. One way or another. Groomers revenge. Oh Lordy. 

He he... Glad you'll be there on your own

Would you like to borrow my wooden spoon?......

[Kevin Wood]

I'm glad there are so many VB specialists here. I think I've just had a VB6 project dumped onto me.

Never did see the point of VB, C#, etc. Would rather use C/C++ and use one language for programming every platform from PICs upwards.

I suspect I'm in for a world of pain with this one.

[feeutfo]

Got a feeling I'm going to pay for this. One way or another. Groomers revenge. Oh Lordy. 

He he... Glad you'll be there on your own

Would you like to borrow my wooden spoon?......

There will be at least 3 I believe.  :-/

[SIR Philbutt]

Tandys went the way Craplin are going. More interested in selling tat than staying in their core business.  I suspect they will end up going the same way as Tandys.

Trouble is, I can't imagine there is any real demand for a shop that sells electronic parts.. how many people do you know who routinely think "Oh, I just need a 2M2 resistor?"..

Years ago there were more 'hobbyists' around - these days everything is throw-away and with the advent of cheap, powerful computers and programming languages designed for monkeys (Visual Basic, I'm looking at you) nobody has any desire to understand the fundamental underpinnings of electronics or computing

You'll be off the Christmas card list if you dis VB

Like many "Of a certain age", I started with Sinclair machines, and thus quickly went on to Z80 assembly.  I still enjoy a bit of MASM even now, but for Windows, life is too short

VB has a place in my programming collection, as its great for 'cheap and cheerful' utility knock-ups. Wouldn't be without it in the collection TBH.


My trouble, I wrote, many, many years ago, a stock system for my brother. It satrted out as a MS Basic PDS 7.1 demo to show him what computers could do for him, then moved to VB1 when that came out. And has been updated over the last 20yrs into an unmanagable mess  (LOL, mirroring the mess MS got in with VB pre .NET), stepping through all of MS's VB versions up to VB6.

Now I'm in a situation where I don't want to rewrite from scratch, but VB.NET says it has too many issues to import, so stuck in VB6 (which, incidentally, the IDE doesn't run properly in Win7)


Although I am pretty reasonable at most common general purpose languages (except Perl, bummer seeing as that is what this forum uses ), Basic variants do tend to be my language of choice if starting something new on Windows.

I started off life with COBOL & PLAN(for ICL 1900 series machines).

Used to like VB in my later life.

Well how about this.

Started with basic on a ZX then Spectrum then commadore 64, moved up to db3+, did a little cobol (not injected), vb, and the DEC VAX one (?), then a loooaaad of Lotus Notes. Now renovate properties, fit bathrooms, decorate, etc, etc.

No version upgrades, no bloody users pulling what youve done to pieces etc etc just plumbing plastering have a brew having a laugh and getting a life (appart from being on here at 1 in the morn).

RS componenets forever but do miss tandys

[TheBoy]

Do you have an independent electrical store within reasonable distance? Your'e more likely to speak to a real person who can help.

  This is why i avoid PC World like the plague. You go in to buy something simple like inks & they insist you need this lead, that adaptor & you must sign up for the latest spyware protecter thing as you really need it. Bollix do i!

  They are greedy so & so's who feed on the gullible & as folk learn they'll give them a swerve & use an independant shop as i've learned to do. Such commercial practices are relativly short lived...

   ...Cheats never prosper.

I live in Brackley. There is nothing nearby


Resistors picked up from the pub last night. I had to suffer a few pints though, reluctantly....

[feeutfo]

Do you have an independent electrical store within reasonable distance? Your'e more likely to speak to a real person who can help.

  This is why i avoid PC World like the plague. You go in to buy something simple like inks & they insist you need this lead, that adaptor & you must sign up for the latest spyware protecter thing as you really need it. Bollix do i!

  They are greedy so & so's who feed on the gullible & as folk learn they'll give them a swerve & use an independant shop as i've learned to do. Such commercial practices are relativly short lived...

   ...Cheats never prosper.

I live in Brackley. There is nothing nearby


Resistors picked up from the pub last night. I had to suffer a few pints though, reluctantly....

Yeah yeah, I know. You where doing them a favour purely for quality control purposes.  . 

[TheBoy]

Tandys went the way Craplin are going. More interested in selling tat than staying in their core business.  I suspect they will end up going the same way as Tandys.

Trouble is, I can't imagine there is any real demand for a shop that sells electronic parts.. how many people do you know who routinely think "Oh, I just need a 2M2 resistor?"..

Years ago there were more 'hobbyists' around - these days everything is throw-away and with the advent of cheap, powerful computers and programming languages designed for monkeys (Visual Basic, I'm looking at you) nobody has any desire to understand the fundamental underpinnings of electronics or computing

You'll be off the Christmas card list if you dis VB

Like many "Of a certain age", I started with Sinclair machines, and thus quickly went on to Z80 assembly.  I still enjoy a bit of MASM even now, but for Windows, life is too short

VB has a place in my programming collection, as its great for 'cheap and cheerful' utility knock-ups. Wouldn't be without it in the collection TBH.


My trouble, I wrote, many, many years ago, a stock system for my brother. It satrted out as a MS Basic PDS 7.1 demo to show him what computers could do for him, then moved to VB1 when that came out. And has been updated over the last 20yrs into an unmanagable mess  (LOL, mirroring the mess MS got in with VB pre .NET), stepping through all of MS's VB versions up to VB6.

Now I'm in a situation where I don't want to rewrite from scratch, but VB.NET says it has too many issues to import, so stuck in VB6 (which, incidentally, the IDE doesn't run properly in Win7)


Although I am pretty reasonable at most common general purpose languages (except Perl, bummer seeing as that is what this forum uses ), Basic variants do tend to be my language of choice if starting something new on Windows.

I started off life with COBOL & PLAN(for ICL 1900 series machines).

Used to like VB in my later life.

Well how about this.

Started with basic on a ZX then Spectrum then commadore 64, moved up to db3+, did a little cobol (not injected), vb, and the DEC VAX one (?), then a loooaaad of Lotus Notes. Now renovate properties, fit bathrooms, decorate, etc, etc.

No version upgrades, no bloody users pulling what youve done to pieces etc etc just plumbing plastering have a brew having a laugh and getting a life (appart from being on here at 1 in the morn).

RS componenets forever but do miss tandys

The Spectrum and C64 hadn't been invented by the time Auto Addict retired. You do realise he is 326 years old this year....

[TheBoy]

Do you have an independent electrical store within reasonable distance? Your'e more likely to speak to a real person who can help.

  This is why i avoid PC World like the plague. You go in to buy something simple like inks & they insist you need this lead, that adaptor & you must sign up for the latest spyware protecter thing as you really need it. Bollix do i!

  They are greedy so & so's who feed on the gullible & as folk learn they'll give them a swerve & use an independant shop as i've learned to do. Such commercial practices are relativly short lived...

   ...Cheats never prosper.

I live in Brackley. There is nothing nearby


Resistors picked up from the pub last night. I had to suffer a few pints though, reluctantly....

Yeah yeah, I know. You where doing them a favour purely for quality control purposes.  . 

Its only bloody veroboard, but I'm too bleary eyed to focus 

[feeutfo]

Do you have an independent electrical store within reasonable distance? Your'e more likely to speak to a real person who can help.

  This is why i avoid PC World like the plague. You go in to buy something simple like inks & they insist you need this lead, that adaptor & you must sign up for the latest spyware protecter thing as you really need it. Bollix do i!

  They are greedy so & so's who feed on the gullible & as folk learn they'll give them a swerve & use an independant shop as i've learned to do. Such commercial practices are relativly short lived...

   ...Cheats never prosper.

I live in Brackley. There is nothing nearby


Resistors picked up from the pub last night. I had to suffer a few pints though, reluctantly....

Yeah yeah, I know. You where doing them a favour purely for quality control purposes.  . 

Its only bloody veroboard, but I'm too bleary eyed to focus 

Oh don't worry too much. Looks like I better bring the gazebo. :-/

[Martian]

I live in Brackley. There is nothing nearby

What's the chances of swerving by on Sunday on my way back home for a cuppa and finding out what suspension/steering components are causing the creaking noises when the wheel is turned from lock to lock when stationary on the Beemer? 

[TheBoy]

A Beemer? I have petrol, and can spare a match

[Martian]

A Beemer? I have petrol, and can spare a match

Even though it's worth at least double what I paid, I don't think I could do that because it performed flawlessly on the way up here, used £15.50 worth of squirt (brim fill test) over 124 miles while maintaining speeds between 70-80mph all the way (except for the 20 mile roadworks section running past Toddington), and was just as comfortable (if not more so) than our Omega.
In fact I'd go as far as to say that if I had to burn one then it would probably be the Omega at this moment in time 

[Martin_1962]

I'm glad there are so many VB specialists here. I think I've just had a VB6 project dumped onto me.

Never did see the point of VB, C#, etc. Would rather use C/C++ and use one language for programming every platform from PICs upwards.

I suspect I'm in for a world of pain with this one.

I had to work on some VB code once.

What a horrible language, and the IDE is totally shit.

It would not even allow me to line up my = in a column

I do admit to liking the XBase langauges, and currently using the latest version of Visual Objects

[TheBoy]

A Beemer? I have petrol, and can spare a match

Even though it's worth at least double what I paid, I don't think I could do that because it performed flawlessly on the way up here, used £15.50 worth of squirt (brim fill test) over 124 miles while maintaining speeds between 70-80mph all the way (except for the 20 mile roadworks section running past Toddington), and was just as comfortable (if not more so) than our Omega.
In fact I'd go as far as to say that if I had to burn one then it would probably be the Omega at this moment in time 

318 iirc? My mum's (olde rthan yours) is a comfy ride.  I can't 'gel' with it, though can't put my finger on why. It goes well enough (for what it is), stops and turns well. I just can't seem to get confident in in (probably no bad thing really)